Collaborative post: Cigarettes put your health at risk, harm others, and can knock value off of your property. When you finally decide to quit or stop smoking inside your home, you must contact professional cleaners to neutralise the lingering smell.
ICE Cleaning is a specialist cleaning company that offers thorough and effective cigarette smoke odour removal. Its technicians can use non-abrasive, non-toxic chemicals and the latest deep cleaning tools to make your property safe, clean, and fresh-smelling.
Read on to find out the main reasons why you should not smoke.
It causes lung disease
Smoking damages your airways and alveoli, and can lead to serious health problems like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. If you have asthma, it could trigger attacks or make them worse if you are already experiencing one.
You’re at high risk of cardiovascular disease
Cigarettes damage blood vessels and increase blood pressure, as well as make blood clots more likely. This puts you in greater danger of heart attacks, strokes, and organ damage. It can also cause coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease.
It is a major cause of cancer
Smoking can cause cancer across your entire body, including in the mouth, larynx, bladder, bowel, cervix, kidney, and liver. It causes 70% of cases of lung cancer, and even increases the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases in cancer patients.
Passive smoking harms others
The secondhand smoke you exhale or that comes from your lit cigarette can be inhaled by people around you. This puts them in danger of the health problems mentioned previously.
It is especially dangerous for children and babies, and puts them at high risk of chest infections, meningitis, cot death, and glue ear.
Thirdhand smoke can reduce your home’s value
When you smoke indoors, pollutants from the cigarettes, including formaldehyde and naphthalene, can settle on surfaces. These particles release dangerous gases which harm your health and make your home smell like cigarettes.
They can embed themselves in soft surfaces, like curtains and furniture, so the odour can linger for several months. As a result, it is very difficult to clean up thirdhand smoke, putting yourself, other residents, and visitors in danger of health problems.
The smell – and the potential health hazards – can be off-putting to potential buyers of a property, and may even reduce its value by up to 29%.
ICE Cleaning’s odour removal services can eliminate all the thirdhand smoke particles in your property and neutralise any unpleasant smells. Its technicians are available wherever you are in the UK, 24/7, 365 days a year. They can be on site in a matter of hours if its an emergency.
You can find out more about ICE Cleaning’s range of services here.